The big accounts (myself included) couldn't act sooner. That's the entire point of the EIP
If I fought an abuser back then, it'll cost me a few hundred to a few thousand dollars in opportunity cost per day, just to know that 75% of the rewards rescued was merely going into the hands of other abusers. The common knowledge of this prevent the system from self correcting. Fighting abuse was futile, capricious and expensive.
And now it's not :)
Agree about trending etc. But for now, any remotely honest set of votes is better than what we had, which was a product of vote selling, self voting junk by the majority of active stake on here. Eventually either tastes may change or communities may help etc. There's a lot of room for improvement, but honest voting is the bedrock of a POB system.
It depended on whether you needed to make a profit. Steemit could have dealt with some abuse, but I assume they wanted to stay neutral. I didn't buy much Steem, so it's all profit to me and I felt I had to do something about what I was seeing, even though I got hit back many times. This situation did a lot of damage as many people have up in frustration.
Lots of good stuff is happening now with all sorts of projects being built on Steem. We desperately need communities to match what other platforms offer in terms of groups around topics.
I've stuck with Steem all this time and am still optimistic. There's never been anything quite like it, so it's hard to know how it will go.
I have seen you active in comments a lot since hf21. Are you planning to restart blogging? You are really good at it.
Aww thanks haha
Maybe, spending a lot of my free time curating and combating abuse at the moment. Writing comedy for me is difficult and time consuming. Takes me like 8 hours to write an average post that's about 600 words long.